Sentences with phrase «standard building plans»

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It's all based on my plan to build a computerized vehicle valuation platform, as well as a national network, which quickly became the de facto standard for the entire insurance industry.

While you need to focus plenty of attention on the standards, like health insurance and PTO, it makes sense to take the time to build some season - specific perks into your benefits plan.

To provide our clients with best - in - class building standards and technologies, we took advantage of 2013 as a prime time to implement a major three - year capital investment plan to revitalize York Mills Centre in Toronto.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

While the average startup or small business can get away with using the basic plans from standard website builder services, e-commerce businesses will need additional tools to build their online presence.

Enhanced building codes and standards, combined with incentives for «green retrofits» and new approaches to land - use planning, can significantly enhance energy efficiency.

Down the road, Uber plans to build on its learnings to support data partnerships in other cities using the SharedStreets data standards.

We plan to apply green building standards to all new buildings, building renovations, and site improvements on our property.

The group recommended core competencies for the statewide professional development plan, building on existing Part C standards.

We actually did have a lot of input into our house - it was a custom design (there are of course people who build standard designs who have even less input, and they are perfectly happy with the house), and we even did some changes in the plans during construction (the builder said, «If I move this wall here, it will make the closet bigger» and we were like, YES!

If you're building a baby changing table, the plans should comply with the safety standards to ensure baby is safe at all times.

They would build an ecological socialism based on economic democracy — cooperatives, public enterprises, public planning, and markets free of monopoly profiteering and predatory finance — in order to provide a decent standard of living for all on an ecologically sustainable basis.

Without a national planning policy that specifically considers accessible and adaptable housing for disabled people, local authorities have no obligation to make sure they're delivering the right kind of housing and find it challenging to require developers to build to a higher standard.

We encourage the CLG to investigate the merits of enforcement via the trading standards department rather than through planning or building control sections of Local Authorities.»

ECONEC also plans a series of regional training workshops for the media to build a critical mass of journalists equipped with the requisite knowledge and skills for reporting elections according to internationally accepted standards.

The mayor's plan also calls for the city to pass an «audit and retrofit bill» that would require buildings with more than 50,000 square feet of floor space to undergo energy audits every 10 years, with mandatory fixes to be made if audits find that buildings do not comply with minimum energy efficiency standards.

As part of the Obama administration's Climate Action Plan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it is proposing to improve its air pollution standards for newly - built municipal landfills, requiring them to capture landfill gas, which contains methane and carbon dioxide.

Although post workout shakes have been a standard part of muscle building and fat loss nutrition plans for decades, this is yet another area where «conventional» fitness advice falls short.

Back squats, with a barbell resting across the shoulders, are often seen as the «gold standard» of lifting and appear in leg day and glute building workout plans.

As well as reducing costs, The Education Funding Agency's (EFA) new plans will look to ensure buildings are fit for purpose and sport improved environmental standards.

Jin plans to work with a team of public school teachers from Minnesota to build the LessonPick database, collecting resources and tagging them across ELL standards and instructional models.

Because all learning is competency - based and student - centered, Build UP apprentices will have individualized instruction plans that map the academic standards they need to learn in any given day and week, which then dictates the apprenticeship hours they can spend in worksites.

Through the six - part lesson plan, students design, present, and build holes for miniature golf courses in accordance with design and math standards.

«Better urban planning, flood defences and building standards could mitigate much of their impact».

The Guide includes key items that children should be learning in English language arts and mathematics in each grade, once the standards are fully implemented, activities that parents can do at home to support their child's learning, methods for helping parents build stronger relationships with their child's teacher, and tips for planning for college and career (high school only).

Following the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the PED launched NMRISING, a statewide initiative to inform the development of New Mexico's state plan7 and build upon the momentum of recent student success.8 The plan reinforces the PED's commitment to robust CCR standards and assessments, meaningful school accountability, a commitment to ensure that all students are served by excellent educators, and dynamic strategies for turning around the state's struggling schools.

When planning new buildings or other facilities, the level of amenity will be driven by the project budget and the standard of fitout and finish elsewhere in the school.

Indeed, RttT competition proved so politically successful the Department of Education built on it by allowing all states to seek a waiver of most NCLB requirements by submitting RttT - like reform plans, including test - based teacher evaluations and the setting of standards similar to the Common Core State Standards.

The latest edition of the National Association of State Boards of Education's journal, The State Education Standard, focuses on equity and ESSA by looking at ways states can build upon their ESSA plans to ensure all students receive an excellent education.

Including six copies of «The Story of Fossil Fuels» and an accompanying lesson plan, this 6 - Pack provides five days of standards - based activities that will engage fourth - grade students, support STEM education, and build content - area literacy in earth and space science.

A blended professional learning model supports site - based professional development and builds educators» skills in creating high - quality assessments and lesson plans aligned to the standards.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Madison School Board member Mary Burke on Wednesday blasted Republican - backed legislation to replace the Common Core State Standards, saying the plan would waste the «precious resources» that school districts have already spent building a curriculum around the standards since they were adopted in 2010.

The lesson plans contain the following components: overviews, grade level, learning objectives, building background activities, learning activities, extension activities, and standards.

Quaver Music's PreK - 8 General Music Curriculum is a comprehensive set of curriculum resources that is built on a foundation of standards - based lessons full of interactive elements and PDF lesson plans for a full 36 - week school year.

We offer the largest selection of modular school buildings and a wide variety of standard floor plans for immediate delivery in California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.

Led by a nationally recognized educator, this intensive training focuses on improving every step of the instructional cycle, from breaking down standards and building the best CFAs to using data to plan meaningful interventions.

By doing the work together, teachers build capacity within grade levels and develop a shared understanding of standards - aligned lesson plans.

From classroom design, to lesson plan templates, to a 10 - day teacher institute prior to the beginning of the school year, CCSP has built an academic program designed to promote mastery of the standards through rigor, engagement and individualized instruction.

The new plan scales back the size of some schools to be built, finds new revenue sources and cuts cost elsewhere to spread the money to every school in the city, either through new construction; full renovation or exterior refurbishment to bring every campus to a standard of «warm, safe and dry.»

Using Achieve3000's built - in reports, administrators can then work with teachers to develop a data - driven plan that identifies which students need more intensive instruction and targets the specific skills or standards that need to be re-taught or reinforced, so that all struggling students can get the intervention they need exactly when and how they need it.

I would hope to see states get more ambitious as they go from plans to action, building high - quality pathways from high school into postsecondary education, standards and assessments aligned with the expectations of entry into college and the workforce, supports for struggling schools that go beyond general assistance, and strategies to help traditionally underperforming student populations close gaps to reach the promise of college and career readiness for all.

Trainings will provide an overview for creating an English Language Development Plan as well as how to utilize the WIDA standards and build a foundation for classroom strategies that can be incorporated into teaching English Language learners.

Each of the SIOP lesson plans included the following elements: associated state science standard, lesson topic, content and language objectives, motivation / background building, presentation of new information and key vocabulary, practice and application activities, review, and informal assessment.

It was critical to develop them early in the year in order to provide time to build student enablers and gather needed resources... Planning was slow and intentional as we attempted to incorporate the English language arts standards, district outcomes, and course - and grade - level curriculum based on broad conceptual themes.

I argue that the best next steps are three-fold: first, to build and fund magnet schools in urban centers; second to replace pro-suburban standards for evaluating schools with standards for quality schools based on scientific research; and third, replacing members of the metropolitan planning committees and commissions with qualified professionals without a conflict of interest in real - estate.

If (and that's a big if) BMW is planning on building the X1 M, it probably wouldn't enter into production until late 2016 at the soonest, considering that M models usually show up about a year after the standard model and the X1 goes on sale this fall.

For an author to possess all the skills, experience and materials to carry out every part of the publishing process to a professional standard is about as likely as someone who decides to build their own home being able to do everything from drawing the plans to digging the foundations to putting on the roof without expert help.

Their floor plans are larger, they are built according to stringent safety standards, and the construction is closely regulated by strict codes.

This announcement builds on ED's plan to overhaul the way it does student loan servicing and it is encouraging to see ED highlight the need for consumer protection standards in the servicing contracts.

The standard response against contributing to a 529 plan I read was that you should only do it AFTER you have built up a good emergency fund (which makes sense to me), AFTER you get rid of all of your debt and AFTER you are able to save for retirement.